You are a daffodil, yellow like the sun .
or an emoji.
Hearts on your sleeve and chest and even forehead.
I should know because I've seen it first hand,
or back hand.
When it was better and we felt like going outside to meet people and when you weren't so afraid of that wall.
This...

Today I started to play Fischer chess, a variant of chess I told myself I would never play. 
I don't think of myself as a purist, but for some reason with chess I always just played the regular versions. 
Even though are a few things that really bother me about...

Damn got covid.

Its okay so far, I think the fever is actually pretty high, but I a celsius thermometer, and I've been taking some paracetemol (or tylenol/ acetominophen). 

Its weird they name it other things everywhere else.

 I am lucky I can be at home, but the fever does make...

Listening to Death Cab for Cutie. I hadn't listened to the band really since 2015. Their new music doesn't really impress me. I think for me and my life they always released albums when I was making big changes. Highschool ended album, college ended album, but I think since their...

The day slipped away made loose by the sun .
I felt tired and hot and my throat sore so I took a test . 
Negative one line then I don't know why my throat is sore. 
It could be the many other microbes 🦠 trying to get at my energy.
I...

Today is going good, and it marks an important time for me. 

I have started in earnest writing my thesis. 

And I figured out how many words I have to write in a work day to finish by June.
Its about 500, 500/day 5 days a week. 

Which is doable,I hope, ...

I was in a hurry today. But it was hard to be. 
My walk was too nice, too much  sun and birds were flying and singing. 
But I had a deadline, an important document that needed to be done by 9am. 
But seriously how can you not stop and smell...

I start a lot of presentations about science with a tree . 

With its branches being areas of knowledge, and what we do as a PhD the tips of the branches. Other people I think talk about how knowledge moves from these thick trucks of solidified stuff, and built on...

The sky doesn't close.
And we should know because we chased down too many sun sets, even though they were as empty as the end of a rainbow. 
Over and over again, and what was it 10 k?
Even if its raining there is still an opening. 
You can see if...

I thought I had a profound idea yesterday. One line of something like wherever you are your there. Or a sweeping generalisation that works for the stage of life I am in. Like something good you could put on Instagram and people would direct message their best friend with. But...